From the one-man-show reference, it sounds more like Fincher is referring to the original stage version of Lenny, which wasn't technically a one-man-show, but was close to that style -- it later morphed into the much more traditional film version with Dustin Hoffman.

See the charge for bread (pane) on the receipt? It's essentially the local version of a tip -- they charge a few Euros for the bread basket (usually filled with inedible stiff breadsticks), which is usually gratis here in the US. Then, you can leave a few coins if you feel like it on top of that. Add it up like that, and its about a 10 percent tip.

How about some basic context, such as what city this incident took place in? Besides the screengrabs, the only source context is "reports 7 news" -- which I clicked through on to discover it referred to an ABC affiliate in Denver.

I've been talking up the Atlantic website for at least a year now -- it's become required reading for me, especially the almost-daily blog updates from Jeffery Goldberg and James Fallows, and occasional articles from Hitchens. And, it formats itself great on the iPad (even though there's a separate Atlantic iOS app, which I've never tried).

I've noticed a disturbing trend -- whenever Henry writes about either politics or taxes, the comments section gets taken over by anti-Obama types.

Not that there's anything wrong with expressing an opinion, however vitriolic it may be, but it really feels to us longtime SAI readers that some kind of alert goes out over a mailing list or something, and everyone gets the call to come here and re-post the same things over and over again.

It's killed the Politico comments section, and I hope it doesn't kill this one.

I think the important point here is that despite being more of a "digital magazine" than a website, The Daily seems to be paying people web rates for articles, as opposed to print rates. For web-only stuff, that's not too far off the mark (although word count can vary greatly), while even mid-level print mags typically pay $1.50/word or more.

Yeah, the time-to-launch seems like a big problem. I got to witness an ambitious launch attempt a few years ago -- top-notch, well-paid editors and writers were hired, office space was filled, multimedia studios were built, and six months later, they had yet to launch. They ended up getting canceled before even flipping the switch.

Wow, you guys are missing the entire point here. It's not that resellers are flooding the waiting lines at stores with proxys, taking advantage of a so-far legitimate loophole. It's that the regular Apple and iPad fans are having a poor customer experience at Apple stores because of it, and that may have a long-term negative effect on Apple.

How long before consumers decide to stay away from Apple's retail stores altogether thinking, "If there's something new and cool at the store, there's no chance I'll be able to get one anyway."

All this, "It's just supply and demand so it's totally cool," talk is painfully short-term thinking -- Apple needs to be concerned with the long-term consequences.